Jean Jacques Machado Answers the Question "Is Joe Rogan Good at Jiu-jitsu?"

When you gave me my purple belt, I remember thinking, that was probably one of the happiest moments of my life. Because to me a purple belt was like, a blue belt was like you just kept showing up. You kept showing up. You kept showing up, now you got a blue belt. But a purple belt was like, you could get a black belt, you just have to keep going. You're on the top of the mountain is a purple belt. You're right there with all the top guys. There's no way down. There is just up. You're right there with all of them. That was during the Fear Factor days. I was more happy about getting that purple belt than I was about getting Fear Factor. I have to mention something because I get a lot of message from people like, oh man, is Joe Hogan good? And Joe Hogan, you did see this good. I said, man, come to my school anytime Joe Hogan shows up. And he's back now training. He's not about his power, man. He doesn't care. He wrestles everybody, anybody. And I see him twist the people around there in the school. And he's one, and this is real. He's one of the hardest student training partners that I have. And I think one of the last time I wrestled him in my Malibu school, I think we trained maybe for half an hour, something like that. I was there for, I don't know, 20 minutes just trying to sweep Joe. And Joe was right there. I finished the training. I said, man, my legs are sore. I don't remember if I did sweep him or not to just stop training after half an hour. And I want people to understand it's anybody that I want to train, I would never, and I refuse, I never give a belt to anybody unless they deserve the belt. And when I say deserve is, I don't defer people from more famous, less famous, thought, no, it's everybody's usual world is the same. You have to walk in the same road as everybody. Because that's the only way you're actually going to learn jiu-jitsu for real. Yes. And I don't remember you saying no to anybody, training, get hurt a lot of times, don't care, show up, and my neck is here, my knee is there, and training. And you're out there that you listen. He's one of the strongest, excuse my language, motherfuckers I have in my school, training jiu-jitsu with. And that's why I'm here. I'm pushing him to get back, and I'm going to show up. Now that I know where he is, I'm going to show up here. What's up, Joe? What's your gear? This is bad. As soon as I heal this fucking knee. That is amazing. I don't want people to know that it's the real deal. Another thing that people don't know is when he was back in the fear factor time, he had one idea to, one of the challenge for the people would be training, fighting a cage roof, me in that cage doing jiu-jitsu. And then they realized, Joe, you don't need me. You go there and do it. You're going to mango everybody there. You don't need anybody to do that. We end up not happening. They decided that it was too dangerous to do a person versus a person. They thought that there was too many legal implications. Exactly. Meanwhile, they had people ride a fucking bull. It didn't make any sense. But so the challenge was they were going to have to start with you on the ground, like in your guard or with you mounting them. We're going to figure out what it was. And whoever survived the longest, you know, like the one person survived the longest. But I told that guy, I said, man, you don't need me. You can use Joe. Joe's going to do the same thing and going to twist whatever needs to do. He has all the tools for that. That was funny. The point was you. You can do it. There was no need for me to do it.